{"id":357990,"date":"2026-07-30T20:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T20:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/357990\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T20:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T20:10:10","slug":"pedestrian-dead-after-crash-in-central-broward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/357990\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian dead after crash in central Broward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Juliana Lujan-Rodriguez<\/p>\n<p>Local 10 Intern<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0July 30, 2026 at 3:46 PM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/FJXF27YAAGHJM3Q5R5ADRGHZ2M.jpg\"  width=\"367\" height=\"206\"\/>The Broward County Sheriff&#8217;s Office (WPLG) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">BROWARD COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A driver hit and killed a pedestrian who stepped out in front of his SUV on Monday morning in central Broward, deputies said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to the Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office, a call was received at 5:48 a.m. involving a crash with injuries near State Road 7 and Riverland Road. Deputies as well as Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue responded to the scene. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to BSO, the driver was headed south on State Road 7 in the right lane when the crash occurred.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to investigators, the pedestrian, 58-year-old Bryan Kommes, did not walk in the marked crosswalk when he attempted to cross the road and stepped into the path of the Chevrolet, where he was struck. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">BSO said Kommes was rushed to Broward Health Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Investigators said the driver remained at the scene and cooperated with the investigation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">At this time, detectives do not believe excessive speed or driver impairment were contributing factors in the crash, according to the sheriff\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Juliana Lujan-Rodriguez Local 10 Intern Published:\u00a0July 30, 2026 at 3:46 PM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandThe Broward County Sheriff&#8217;s Office (WPLG) BROWARD&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-357990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}